Chandelier.



PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1908 w; T. 11.--PVAULB`Y.

.CHANDBLIER APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1907.

Mag? ff N UNITED STATES PATENT onirica.

yWILLIAM fr. n PAULEY; or wAYNssBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

onsivnsmna.

T o all whom 'it may concern.;

Be it known 'I that I, WILLXAM T.. H.

I Fenner', a citizen of the'United States,'re, siding at Waynesbnrg, inthe `county .of4

mantles are very delicate and friable and are f easily broken by shocksor jars which may be transmitted-to them throughl the gas lixtures. Thisis articularly the case with chandeliers which Aare hung from theceiling, since oittiznes the moving or fall of heavy objects on thefloor above may im art to the chandelier suflicient jar or-shoc to causethe destruction. of the friable inantles.

,lt is the object ot the present invention to provide shock-absorbingmeans for the chandelier so arranged. as the gas conduit. Y

'flhe invention con'l rises arnain stern, to be hung from the eei ing inthe usual man ner, with a gas pipe section carrying branch arms througliwhich the gas is' conveyed to to not interfere with suitable lviurnersat the ends of the arms, and

this pipe section is supported so as to travel longltudinally within themain. stern, `in which latter is housed a spring b1 other elastic suport for the gas pipe. Further than this, t 1ere is provided a weight sothat the spring may be always under tension and therein y save thechandelier from too large a ncvenient when ,ected to a ,shock or jar.

. (i is conveyed from the main service pi e to the gas pi Je portion ofthe chandelier y suitable Iiexi. ile connections which will permit suchextension or retraction between the parts of the chandelier as may benecessary to save the incandescent mantle-carrying portion of thechandelier Afrom the eccts of shocks or jars. l

The invention will be fully understood from the following detaileddescription taken in connection with the accompanying draws ings formingpart of this specitication, in Whichf# Figure 1 is a vertical. section,partly in elevation, of a chandelier constructed in ac- -Spcratvon ofLettereI Patent. Application sied my 27,' 1901., smh Ng.y 376,014.

to improve*l rammed March 24, 190s.

lcordanc'e with my invention; Fig. 2 is a detail View of a differentform of'flexible-con nection forthe gas pipe from thatsho'wn in Fi 1 g'and Fig. 3 is a detail-view showing a di erent arrangement ofthe gasconduit from that shown in big. 1. Referring to t e drawings, there isshown `that end of a main gassup ply` pipe 1 which usually projectsthrough the ceiling of a room, which ceiling is .generally indicated at2. The 'lower end of the gas ipe 1 is closed by an eyebap, whiletapped)intothis gas pipe 1 above t e closed lower end is a nip le 4 tobe hereinafter referred to. Fast to t e ceil `ing is a rose 5 supportinga. tube A6 which constitutes the main ornamental.stem 'of thechandelier. The lower end ofthis tube 6 is telescoped which is closed byaneye-ca 8 receiving one end of a helical spring 9, other end of whichis fast in the eye-cap 3. 4Attached to the lower end of the gas plpe 7constituting the lower or extensible portion of the chandelier stem, isa Weight 10 surrounding the couplings (not shown) between the gas pipe 7and. lateral arms 11, alsoof` gas pipe, at t e outer ends of which aresupported the burners into a gas Lpipe 7, the upper end of 12 throughthe intermediary of the usual gas i valves 13. The burners 12 as shownare simply illustrative of known forms of burners nsinginoandescent gasmantles, and, therefore, need no particular'or detailed description.

Attached to the nipple 4 through an elbow 14 is a small gaspipe 15,either exterior` to the tube` 6,- as shown in Fig.. 1, or interiorthereto, as shown in Fig. 3, and this gaspi "e- 15 has connected. to itslower end one end o a two-arm extension bracket 16, the other endofyvhich is connected through a nipple 17 sto the interior of thegaspipe 7. Thus the fgas coming through the main pipe 1.- has ce accessto the as pipe` 7 through the exten-V sion or 'flexib e connection 16.Instead of this connection 16 a flexible hose 18, as shown in Fig. 2,maybe used.

It will now be seen that the burners of the chandelier are'supportedupon one end of anelastic hanger composed of the spring 9, which spring4is at a able stress caused by the weight of the lower 105. l timesunder considensection of the'chandeli'er .and of the weight 10. Underthese conditions, itwill be noted that the lower section of thechandelier will not stil' yspring and its range of movement is thereforenot very great. Consequently,

vany movement im arted to the chandelier and guided by t while absorbedby t e spring 9 will cause but little movement of the lower section`of'the chandelier and this movement Will quickly subside. Moreover, anysudden movement of the upper or fixed Stem 6 will, under ordinaiycircumstances, not be transmitted at all to the' loversection 7 of thechandelier, or, if transmitted; the movement will-be greatly modifiedand so attenuated and vlengthened as to time period that the mantlescarried by the burners 12 Will receive no destructive shocks. l v

'lolaim: y i V l. 1. A gas chandelier for vgas burners havinincandescent ,mantlesf comprising a fixe hollow' stem; e,burner-suiporting stem closed at the'u per end an there entering lriefixed stem, and also constitnting a gasconduit; 'gas connectionsindependent ofthe hollowT stem, connected at one end to a-'xed gassupply pipefand at the, other end to the burnersupportingstem,

'Il with interposed flexible gas-conve con nections, concealed in theconnected at one endto the closed en of the and a glring entirely incosed and ed stem, said sprin being burner-supporting stem within thelxed stem and at'the other endA hung from a lixed structure'.

2. A gas chandelier for gas bnrners havin:

incandescent mantles, comprising' a fixe tubular stem; a movable gaspipe closed at the uper end and there entering and guided by Sai stem; aspring connected at one end to a Xed sup ort and at the other end to thetubular stem and leading from the mainas' supply pipe along the lengthof the/tub at stem, flexible connections between the gas conduitand themovable gas' ipe; gas

burner-supporting arms connecte `to` and `leading from. the-movable aspipe and., a I WeiGht independent of and e. l

ditiona oi he movable as pi ve and burner-supporting arms, carried by tgi tion therewith of the burner-supporting a2-rms.

In testimony thatfl' claim the foregoingi asmy own, I have hereto eixedmy signature in'the presence of two witnesses. WILLLAM PAULEY.Witnesses:

S. M. SMITH, JOHN F. PAULEYL- A to .that

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